Make sure
your eBook cover image is striking and professional at any size.
Create a new
ebook cover image with your new name, then upload the new cover image at Dashboard: Settings.
Prior to uploading your book to Smashwords, you will prepare a formatted manuscript and obtain a professionally - designed
ebook cover image.
How To Create An Ebook Cover With Photoshop — How to create a simple 3D
ebook cover image using a template.
If you don't have Photoshop, or want a quick and easy way to create a 3D
ebook cover image, here are four tools that will do most of the work for you.
We also have plenty of tools and Photoshop actions to help you create 3D
ebook cover images for both hardcover and paperback.
Spotted at AbsoluteCovers.com, this Photoshop action script is free to download and allow you to create
ebook cover images in just matter of seconds.
Another free 3D ebook cover Photoshop Action that will allow you to create beautiful 3D
ebook cover images in seconds.
Not exact matches
In practice, an
ebook developers» influence can be as small as thinking ahead to keeping the color versions of
images that will later be converted to grayscale for print so they can be returned to color for the
ebook, or to reminding editors that a yellow, low - contrast
cover is going to disappear on an e-ink device.
This free
image manipulation program will help you do the basic things you need to make a
cover that can be used for
ebooks.
It seems to have a lot of features that I'm just not entirely sure about, and I also think the newer version of Calibre is missing or has changed certain things; for instance, I can't find the option to maintain my
cover's
image dimensions (unless that's because I'm outputting to mobi instead of epub), which leads me to my additional question: How do I stop Calibre from constantly resizing my 1600 × 2400
image (what I've read is ideal size for use through any
ebook distribution channel) down to 1333x???? (sorry, not at my computer at present so can't remember the dimensions it shrinks it to).
A beautifully designed
cover and interior layout (including up to 10
images) in both paperback and
ebook formats
Add the
cover image to the first page of your
eBook so that when the reader downloads your PDF, it is all in one file.
And the reason why you can't find the answers to how to finally import your files the right way, how to add a
cover image to your
ebook, or even how to use the split - screen feature without messing up your writing is because no one else really knows how to do it with Scrivener, either.
For
ebooks and print books, it's also worth remembering that anyone buying online may first see your book
cover as a small thumbnail
image.
How To Create An
Ebook Cover In Photoshop — How to turn a flat cover image into a 3D ebook cover, complete with sh
Ebook Cover In Photoshop — How to turn a flat cover image into a 3D ebook cover, complete with sh
Cover In Photoshop — How to turn a flat
cover image into a 3D ebook cover, complete with sh
cover image into a 3D
ebook cover, complete with sh
ebook cover, complete with sh
cover, complete with shadow.
The center button allows you to edit the
ebook metadata, adding the title, author,
cover image, etc. to the file.
A large selection of free actions to turn your
cover image into a variety of different 3D hardcover
ebook covers.
Ebook Cover Formatting does not include: — Design aspects, such as adding, removing, or altering text or
images.
If your manuscript is ready for publication, mostly text with a
cover image, and you only plan an
ebook edition initially, there will often be no extra costs to get published on Amazon and other key online bookstores.
For that reason, your readers will appreciate
ebooks that go straight from the
cover image to the first page of the body of the story, interrupted only by items that are crucial to understanding the book from the start.
There's a way of adding a
cover, a way of converting a table to an
image so that it doesn't break your
ebook (another topic for another day!)
Includes: Front
cover, spine, and back
cover design
Ebook cover Four to six custom designs to choose from Up to ten quality, high resolution, fully licensed, royalty free stock art
images * Typography with quality, commercially licensed fonts ** Up to ten rounds of revisions One Facebook
cover image One 728x90 banner ad 3D book
image Audiobook design
You will be able to tell us the synopsis of your story, provide key elements that you would like featured, examples of
ebook cover designs that you like and you will even able to upload sketches and
images for us to use.
Choosing the perfect size for
ebook images is still an open question given the growing range of screen sizes, but shrinking to 1000px should ensure that you don't trigger a (historical) bug that crashed a popular mobile reading system by giving it a
cover too large in size.
We suggest commissioning an
ebook cover and then making your print book
cover in Pressbooks using the
ebook image as your front
cover.
In about a week, when I approve the new
cover for print and
ebook distribution, I'll change the
cover image here and other places online.
Please be advised that submitting or posting any of the following content in your
eBook file,
cover image or product data may, in the exercise of Barnes & Noble's sole and unfettered discretion, result in the removal of said content and / or termination of your account.
I create uncompressed (100 quality) JPEG files for
ebook covers, as this provides the sharpest
image with a file size of about 1 to 1.5 megabytes.
AJ, my
eBook has (in addition to 15,000 words and 200
images) 9 short videos and what I call a living
cover, ie a looping video with sound that plays while on page.
You will be able to tell them the synopsis of your story, provide key elements that you would like featured, examples of
ebook cover designs that you like and you will even able to upload sketches and
images for them to use.
When we create an
eBook cover for you, you will receive the file in all required formats, inluding a bonus 3d
image for use on the web.
One of the talented designers over at
Ebook Launch posted a four - minute time - lapse video of the complete book
cover design process (from selecting the stock
images, fonts, Photoshop work, etc.).
Not all of them let you set your own custom
image size however, and an
ebook cover should be 1600px X 2400px.
This awesome compendium of resource links
covers the how - to gamut: publishing
ebooks, audiobooks, or print books; writing, editing, formatting, and conversion software; advice blogs; blogs where you can publicize your work; where to find editors, proofreaders, book interior designers,
cover designers and artists, publicists,
cover art and
images, and much more.
(Thanks to a long - standing bug in the Kindle software, side - loaded
ebooks don't display
cover images automatically.
For example, Project Gutenberg, a major producer of public - domain
ebooks, hosts epub and Kindle files that sometimes lack basic typographic necessities like curly quotes; some of those
ebooks are automatically generated and can't take full advantage of modern ereader technology like popup footnotes or popup tables of contents; they sometimes lack niceties like
cover images and title pages; and the quality of individual
ebook productions varies greatly.
As
ebooks are quickly evolving to incorporate more media,
ebook cover art displayed on major bookstores are small singular
images.
Also, PubIt's terms also state: «Please be aware that the following content is unacceptable and submitting or posting said content in your
eBook file,
cover image, or product data will result in immediate termination of your account: Advertisements: Material contained within your
eBook that primarily seeks to sell a product other than the
eBook itself...» and «Hyperlinks of any kind, including email addresses... Advertisements or promotional material» (even for the author's other books!)
It is the actual
cover image inside the final
eBook.
Your
eBook will be created using all the colour material you provide, such as your
cover image and illustrations.
NY Times forgot that they had a meandering article about how a lack of book
cover images makes
ebooks terrible around 6 months ago (perhaps 12).
Each side shows an
image of the
eBook cover art and in the 1/2 ″ white space at the bottom — on one side is the opening hook of that novel and my website address, while the reverse side has genre and where the novels can be purchased.
Especially with most
ebook readers turning to color, and getting only a tiny, tiny thumbnail
image of your
cover to grab attention, you need to use whatever you can to stand out.
There are several great programs available to help you design a high quality
cover image for your
ebook.
By simply following their guidelines, one can use tools that create awesome book
cover images to publish their work as an
eBook.
Ladies and Gentlemen, perhaps we could start by adding great
cover images to
ebooks and keeping the illustrations intact?
In this video, I show you how to crop an
image for a book
cover so that it fits the dimensions of the target
ebook reader device (like the Kindle Fire which is 6 inches x 9 inches) and at the same time reducing the file size but maintaining quality.
This Photoshop action script will covert any flat
ebook image into a beautiful looking 3D
ebook cover.
Click the
image and take the first step to better
ebook covers.